Microsoft executive Joanne Bradford (Corporate Vice President, chief Media Officer, MSN), is leaving Microsoft to join Spot Runner Inc.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Spot Runner develops technology solutions that revolutionize the way advertising is created, targeted, bought and sold. The …

Our friends at LiveSino.net, through their new Windows Live Community forums and in association with MSN China, are running a competition:

Hello again, I am Picturepan2 Yan. I would like to announce a Competition now – there’s a new competition

UPDATE #2: Looks like this must have been just a test, as the new UI isn’t available anymore.  Since it only worked in IE7, and not IE8 or Firefox, probably a good indication that there’s still work left to do.…

In case you haven’t been following the Microsoft PR Mix08 tour bus, here’s the numerous stops they’ve been making on the subject of Ray Ozzie and Mesh:

• The FT churns out a great piece, which you could be forgiven

The Windows Live FolderShare team blog has today announced a new FolderShare. So what’s new with it? Well…. Not much! In fact, I could say the update includes the following:

• A new website designed to makes managing your

This one has been in my list to post for a few days now, unfortunately Mix 08 kinda got in the way. At the Microsoft CIO Summit that took place early last week, the new Surface computer/table was shown off. …

We’ve been down for the last 20 hours or so – some kind of a hardware problem with our dedicated server – fixed now.  And yes we paid the bills 😉

Some interesting stuff around the interwebs about Ray Ozzie, …

Here’s a few items in the comments to the PhotoZoom post that I figured were worth highlighting for those lazy RSS readers (yes me included):

• Matt Augstine from the PhotoZoom team has given some info about how the service works,

This just up over on the VisitMix blog:

"During Wednesday’s keynote, Ray Ozzie mentioned an exciting offering that we will be making available in the near future through an invitation only Technology Preview program.  Click here to log-in to

Yesterday we talked about how the new Silverlight 2 beta announced at Mix 08 contains zooming technology based on SeaDragon and Photosynth, aptly called Deep Zoom.

While there is the Deep Zoom Composer for those who want to make …